Lamp And Light

Lucerna pedibus meis verbum tuum Domine et lumen semitis meis ... Lucerna lumen in testa; lumen in vase, divinitas in humanitate. Vas humanitas, lumen divinitas. Vita via, tenebrae ignorantia. Praecessit Christus fereus lucernam; sequitur Christianus tenens exempli semitam. Proposuit humanitatem lucentem; ex divinitate extulit lucernam, ut videamus fide, ambulemus operatione, dirigamur imitatione praecedentem unum multi sequentes. Hugo De Sancte Victore, Miscellanea, Liber II, Caput LXIX Source: Migne PL 177.632c

Your word is a lamp for my feet, O Lord, a light for my paths...1 A lamp is light in an earthen pot, Divinity in humanity is a light in a vessel. The vessel is humanity, the light Divinity. The way is life, the darkness ignorance. Christ goes ahead bearing the lamp, the Christian follows, holding to the path of example. He has determined that humanity shine, from Divinity He has brought forth the lamp, that we might see in faith, walk in works, and be directed in imitation, so that many follow the one who goes ahead. Hugh Of Saint Victor, Miscellanea, Book 2, Chapter 79 1 Ps 118.105